Greta Rainbow

Greta Rainbow is a writer, researcher, editor, and artist in New York. She grew up among creatives in a rapidly changing Seattle—read her essay on a statue of Lenin in her neighborhood—and moved to Montreal to study English and Art History at McGill University. She is currently Research Editor at Bustle Digital Group and an editor at The Creative Independent, as well as a columnist at New York Review of Architecture and the anchor contributor to Blank, a new literary newsletter from Dirt Media. Her essays, criticism, and reporting on books, film, and art have appeared in the Cleveland Review of Books, the Guardian, Hyperallergic, New York Magazine, NYLON, W Magazine, and many others. Her fiction is published or forthcoming in Angel Food, Hobart Pulp, and the Los Angeles Review of Books; her short story “Toothbrush Horror Story” was adapted for the stage at Villanova University in 2024. She is a 2025 Writer-in-Residence at Salzburger Kunstverein in partnership with SPIKE Magazine.